At least you didn't also have to go to a bank machine, and then to a convinience store in the middle of the night to buy something...and then back again cause you realized the change you got wouldn't work out right, LOL.The TF is very negligent in our house. Thankfully, our kids tend to lose or swallow their teeth, LOL.

You're lucky, our daughter had a extra permanent tooth and had to have it removed. That involved removing her top two baby teeth to get at it. After sewing her up and putting pressure on the wound, another baby tooth on the bottom fell out. The tooth fairy was major broke after paying for 4 teeth (the tooth fairy took the rogue tooth too).

See, in our house sometimes the tooth fairy's money "falls" behind their beds. Then their mother, who is brilliant (and has good sleight-of-hand skills) magically finds it tucked into a corner somewhere.

Peice of cake, wait until the phone call awakens you at 2 AM, Hi Mr. X, Local PD calling can you come down and pick up your son, seems like he and a few of his buddies decided to sneak out and see what life is like at 2 AM.

I keep baby teeth for DNA purposes. When questioned about my possession of same I told the kids that the tooth fairy left them in a box for me after taking them from under the pillow. Fortunately for me I save certain types of quarters and have been able to use them in a pinch. Then I exclaim over them in the morning and ask said child, "HEY! That is so not fair! The tooth fairy never left me stuff like that. Would you be willing to trade 'x' for those?"

once I forgot completely, and my daughter cried from the bed the next morning that the tooth fairy didn't leave her any money. I told my husband to quickly give me some change from the nightstand, and just as she came running in our room, I shoved my hand under my pillow and said 'hey, look! she left it here under my pillow instead! She must have been drunk! That crazy tooth fairy!' (I was half asleep still). She actually believed that the tooth fairy had got drunk and left the money under the wrong pillow.

@Amanda - I've had to do that one a time or two. I've got two boys losing teeth right now (my oldest is losing his late) I've also given up on the under the pillow thing because I have light sleepers. We leave teeth on the kitchen counter in a baggie so that the tooth fairy can find them easily. That way I can grab a handful of coins out of the junk drawer, chuck them in the bag, and voila!

We also have a potty fairy that comes once the kids make the final transition from kid potty to adult potty and don't need the kid potty any more. The Potty Fairy brings toys, not money.

Now that I think about it, my kids are extortionists. Between Santa, the tooth fairy and the potty fairy, we're always broke.

@ Amanda & I Said - very good ideas! Last tooth our daughter got $10 (no change!!) but with a very small note, saying she'd given her extra for Christmas. (it was a few days before). I didn't want to have to cough up $10 per tooth in the future!

Also, I'm with the others who point out the dangers of leaving wallet/purse in the car...of any place in your home, garage is the most likely to be robbed. I wouldn't care about the cash so much...I would have nightmares about replacing the license, cards, etc.

then there are those times, you don't remember until 7am as the little ones wake up .... which is what normally happens to me, so either i have very innocent kids (ooh, they must have been busy last night and will come tonight), or they just humour me.

A similar thing happened to me one Christmas Eve. I went out into the garage in nothing but my PJs and ended up locking myself out of the house. It was below freezing that night and probably only in the 20s in the garage. I did everything to try to wake up my husband...blew the car horn, put the garage door up and down, anything to make noise. NO response. I found some old clothes in a box and put several layers on to keep from freezing to death. My final solution: I cut the main breaker off. My husband uses a CPAP machine. That woke him up in a hurry!!!

Should have just gotten a 'Silver Dollar' out from ye ole collect, put that under their pillow and when they hop around going yippie, you can say: Oh, you are special... let me save this for when you grow up and will be worth more! Kid: Yippie! I'm special to the tooth fairy!

I'm so glad to hear that TF around the world are slackers! I have also employed the sleight of hand technique,been forced to hand out$20 and have also had to blame the dog or cat sleeping on the bed for nonpayment (TFs are afraid of dogs and cats didn't you know!)

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